Few days back I reported about new labs that has been added to Free VMware Labs at Hands On Line after VMworld San Francisco. And today VMware has added even more labs to the list, which starts to be quite impressive. All new VMware technology (yes, the one which is not available for public yet too !) is […]
How to Remove Cached IP addresses and hostnames in vSphere client
If you’re IT consultant, IT guy working with VMware vSphere or just testing ESXi in your lab, after a certain time you’ll find that in your management workstation or laptop when launching the vSphere client (the Windows based) you start to accumulate the old connection settings. All those IPs and host/DNS names starts to make […]
Official VMware VSAN Videos – VSAN config, requirements, interoperability and VM availability
There are new videos of VSAN available through VMwareTV YouTube Channel. There are 5 of them and all showing VSAN, the configuration steps and availability. Precisely one of those videos (video 5) which shows the details what happens if there is a host failure and the VM storage policy has been defined with Number of failures […]
How to enable multiple RDP sessions on Windows
Multiple RDP sessions are disabled on Windows servers. It means that if you are working on the server and at the same time another administrator connects, you get disconnected because the other admin takes over. How to enable multiple RDP sessions on Windows? There is a simple way to do it and I’ll show you […]
VMware Workstation 10 can also downgrade virtual hardware. Did you know?
The other day I was trying VMware Workstation 10. I can’t remember if previous release was able to downgrade the virtual hardware, but the release 10 of Workstation can. I was actually trying to upload a Windows 2012 R2 server VM which I installed by using Workstation. This is something that has been around since […]
VCSA 5.5 Installation and configuration – Part 2
In the first part of the article we simply deployed the vCenter 5.5 VM from the OVF file – vCenter Server 5.5 Linux Appliance – Install/config . Fast and efficient. While we successfully integrated the VCSA to the Windows domain and we could see the computer account in the AD, we still had to log in with […]
VMware VSAN Video
VSAN is hot. It’s time to check my vSphere 5.5 page and see all the new features of vSphere 5.5 that have been unveiled during VMworld 2013. I have been playing with VMware VSAN (one of the pre-release builds) and in one of my earlier articles you could read about the VSAN configuration steps, but […]
vSphere Best Practices on iSCSI – Deployments and Design
Newly updated white paper by VMware is all about design and deployment of vSphere on iSCSI storage, which is the most used by smaller and bigger customers. It’s a document which has been updated last week called iSCSI Design Consideration and Deployment guide teaches the best practices for running VMware vSphere on iSCSI storage. Authored by Cormac […]
VMware vFlash Read Cache (vFRC) configuration steps
Upcoming VMware vSphere 5.5 which has been announced during VMworld 2013 brought another interesting feature called vFlash Read Cache (vFRC). A special formatting is applied to each SSD in each host, and each SSD device is formatted with new filesystem called VFFS (Virtual Flash File System). This VFFS spans the cluster and forms a flash resource which […]
VMware VSAN configuration steps with nested ESXi hypervisors
You can test VMware VSAN configuration even if you don’t have 3 physical servers. By simply creating 3 virtual ESXi hosts (VMs) which run on the same box it’s possible to test VSAN. Each virtual ESXi needs to have at least one spinning disk and one SSD disk. You can also use a computer running VMware Workstation. […]
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